Jessie mueller and a musical performance by animal collective featuring jon batiste and stay human cheers and applause and now its time for the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause captioning sponsored by cbs everybody thank you very much cheers and applause welcome to the late show. Im Stephen Colbert. Tonight, im wearing your mothers favorite suit. cheers and applause looks even better on the floor. Dont ask. Dont ask. You know what . Lets get straight to it. As usual, theres one big orange story tonight, donald trump. laughter hes the presumptive g. O. P. Nominee, but there are a few people he still has to win over. For instance, everyone in the g. O. P. laughter but today the healing began. Trump went down to washington to meet with speaker of the house paul ryan in a highlevel summit, after which ryan seemed very encouraged. I think we had a very encouraging meeting. I was very encouraged with what i heard. I was very encouraged. Again, im very encouraged. This is a
And a musical performance by desiigner. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now its time for the late show with Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen boom hey hey welcome to the late show. Thank you up there. Thank you down there. Thank you so much, thank you, welcome to the late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. And before we go any further, right off the beep, i have to take a moment right now to congratulate a friend of the show, stephan curry, for being named the n. B. A. M. V. P. cheers and applause well deserved. Boom because he won unanimously, all 131 votes. Yet, somehow, Hillary Clinton was still awarded half the delegates. laughter i dont understand. Congratulations, congratulations, steph curry. Everybody must be so proud back home in. Uh, golden state . And did you see his daughter did you guys see his daughter at the press conference steal the show at the press conference. Take a look at this footage right here. Thats her psyching out the front row. Thats pre
applause welcome back. Now ladies and gentlemen, our next presenter is very nervous as it is his first time at the tonys, please get behind him. Give him a warm welcome, its neil patrick harris. It gives me great pleasure to be here tonight. Im currently working on a project in vancouver, not the king and i live but as a member of the community, i couldnt pass up the opportunity to come back to new york to be a part of this amazing night. This season, work by the men nominated for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical has been fearless, inspiriational, groundbreaking. The nominees are alex brightman, school of rock the musical. Danny burstein, fiddler on the roof. Zachary levi, she loves me. Ma leslie odom, jr. , hamilton. And the tony goes to leslie odom, jr. , hamilton. cheers and applause in his first starring role on broadway, leslie odom, jr. Takes home a tony for his wonderful performance as aaron burr in hamilton. Thank you. Thank you so much. I want to tha
Bring it to you. Right now police in brooklyn are investigating a violent robbery. A 43yearold woman pistol whipped inside a home in east new york. The assailant got away. Relatives say the woman sold jewelry out of her home. She is expected to survive. We are going to turn now to the mumps outbreak that is prompting extra precautions at a university in connecticut. Eight sacred heart students contracted the infection last month and now the school is urging caution. Eyewitness News Reporter marcus solis in connecticut with the details. Marcus . Reporter dave and liz, there is no treatment for the mumps. The virus just has to run its course. The good news is that the students have recovered, they are fine. But School Officials acknowledge more cases are likely. Im a little worried. I dont know too much about mumps, so i feel like ill wake up and have it. That spontaneous but an outbreak at sacred heart university. 8 confirmed cases, 9 probable cases. School officials were alerted on mar
Contested contest. Troubling signs. Princes personal chef opens up about recent Health Problems he says he witnessed, as the pop stars siblings head to court to begin the long fight for his estate. And trouble brewing. Starbucks hit with a 5 million lawsuit. This one all about their iced drinks and whether youre getting what you pay for today, monday, may 2nd, 2016. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning. Welcome to today on this monday morning. May is not coming quietly in seattle. The Pacific Northwest seeing violence. Its our top story. Violent may day clashes in seattle between capitalist demonstrators and the police. Gadi schwartz is there. Good morning to you. Good morning, matt. Boarded up doors here in downtown seattle after a chaotic night. Police say they tried to take a handsoff approach. When people started throwing things at them, they had to switch from crowd control into riot mod